Story By: Jonathan Macias, Sub Editor: Joseph Golder, Agency: Central European News

Video Credit:CEN

This is the moment officials peer into a huge sinkhole which slip road appeared on a motorway slip road after a Volkswagen with two passenger fell inside.

According to reports, two men suffered minor injuries when their grey Volkswagen Gol tumbled into a huge hole, forcing the local authorities to close the road while they lifted the vehicle out by crane.

The incident took place on a stretch of motorway between the central Argentine cities of Plottier, in Neuquen Province, and Cipolletti in Rio Negro Province.

Car owner Guillermo Montejia told local media: “We were driving along when suddenly the front of the vehicle disappeared.

“Thankfully, we were wearing our seat belts and that saved us. A lorry was coming up behind us and if it had hit us, we would not be here to tell the story! In this regard, we were very lucky.”

He added: “We were scared we would be crushed by the tarmac, but we are both fine.”

Montejia explained that the lorry driver stopped to help them get out of the sinkhole before the authorities arrived to close the stretch of road.

The damaged vehicle was then lifted out of the hole by a crane, as seen in the second video clip.

According to the Provincial Entity of Water and Sanitation (EPAS), the sinkhole was caused by a damaged underground drainage pipe.

The slip road is expected to open again after two days of maintenance work, according to the local authorities.

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